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Practice Problem: Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution Retrosynthesis
You gotta know your EAS reactions for this one! Make sure you do them in the right order, too.
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Practice Problem: Reducing Agents
For this one we need to know the ability of different reducing agents to react with various functional groups.
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IIT/JEE Chemistry Practice #27: Resonance Energy
Practice REAL problems from actual past IIT/JEE exams with Professor Dave!
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Practice Problem: Mechanism - Acid Catalysis
For this one we need to know what happens to alcohols under acidic conditions. Beware of tricky carbocations!
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CYP2E1 Mechanism Part 2: Conversion of Ethandiol to Acetate
CYP2E1 Mechanism Part 2: Conversion of Ethandiol to Acetate
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Overview or Oxidation Reactions in OCHEM
Overview or Oxidation Reactions in OCHEM
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Bucky Balls, Nanotubes & Graphene
Learn the basics about bucky balls, graphene and nano tubes. This video start with a short recap on Allotropes and then starts you off learning about Fullerenes and Graphene and then gives you an overview into nanoscience and it's uses...
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Practice Problem: E2 on Cyclic Systems and Cyclohexane Chairs
For this one we will want to recall some of the rules about doing E2 on a cyclohexane ring, as well as the relative stabilities of cyclohexane chairs. Combining concepts! Predicting kinetics!
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Practice Problem: Site of Protonation on a Weak Base
For this one we will need to understand the basics about Bronsted-Lowry acid-base reactions, and we also should be able to gauge the stability of various potential conjugate bases.
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Practice Problem: Analyzing Acid-Base Equilibria
Acids! Bases! Conjugate acids! Conjugate bases! We definitely have to be able to label such things, and we should also know how to state which direction in an acid-base equilibrium is preferred. To do this we should know how to tell...
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Practice Problem: Ozonolysis Reactions
Ozone isn't just for shielding us from harmful UV radiation! It's a handy-dandy synthetic tool. Try these on for size.
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Periodic Table Part 8: Halogens (F, Cl, Br, I, At, Tn)
It's time to check out Group 17 on the periodic table, the halogens. This includes fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine, and tennessine. What can we say about their properties, reactivities, and applications? Let's find out!
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Practice Problem: Energy Diagrams
For this one we need to understand what the different parameters on an energy diagram correspond to. Check out my tutorial on this subject in the general chemistry playlist if it seems fuzzy!
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Practice Problem: Synthetic Strategy
We've got starting material and we've got a target molecule, and we've gotta figure out how to make the transformation in just two steps. Sift through that bag of synthetic tricks!
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Practice Problem: Reaction of a Terminal Alkyne
We've got a terminal alkyne, and we're gonna do some stuff to it. What will we get? What's that Grignard reagent gonna do? Be careful!
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Practice Problem: Hydrogenation, Isomerism, and Cyclohexane Chairs
For this one we need to understand the stereospecificity of hydrogenation over platinum metal, stereochemical relationships, and the relative stability of cyclohexane chair conformations.
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Practice Problem: Grignard Reactions
Grignards are all over the place! Better make sure we can draw the correct products of Grignard reactions. Try these for practice.
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Practice Problem: Four-Reaction Pathway
We are starting with benzene, we do four reactions, and what do we get? See if you can get the right answer!
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Practice Problem: Crossed Aldol Products
Enolate chemistry is tricky business! You might get more products than you think. Give this one a shot.
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Practice-Problem: Three-Reaction Pathway
We've got a starting material, and we are subjecting it to a series of three reaction conditions. What do we get? See if you can find out!
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Practice-Problem: Two-Reaction Pathway
This time we have a starting material, and we are gonna do just two reactions. But it's a little tricky! See if you can figure it out.
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Practice Problem: Oxidizing Agents
For this one we need to know the ability of different oxidizing agents to react with various functional groups, and what functional groups will result.
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Practice Problem: Diels-Alder Reactions
Rings upon rings! Forwards and backwards! Give these a shot.